Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...M. GANGOLF...
...South was still grumbling. Memphis' Boss Ed Crump snarled: "I'm for anybody except Harry Truman. Any good Democrat will get my vote." But he added that there was no truth in reports that Southern states would hold a rump convention. Even without the South, Harry Truman seemed to be in. National Chairman J. Howard McGrath announced that his rock-bottom figures showed the President with a minimum of 900 of a possible 1,234 votes on the first ballot...
...East is not altogether effete, however: the Colorado Springs boosters had reckoned without the citizens of Sackets Harbor. Growled Mayor Carl M. Jackson: "General Pike's been buried here for more than a century, and we mean to keep him here...
...this period, "but all the doors were closed." In 1935, a door opened. Premier Paul van Zeeland asked him to enter the Cabinet as Minister of Transport, Posts & Telegraphs. Spaak accepted. Then, excitedly, he telephoned his mother: "Maman, if your telephone breaks down, complain directly to me. I'm the new Communications Minister." The next year he became Foreign Minister...
Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson had quite a time swearing in Averell Harriman as ECA's ambassador-at-large. The two got together for the ceremony, and then discovered that a Bible was lacking. A messenger was sent for one. Also, a flag was lacking. A messenger went for one. Bible and flag arrived, but the flagstaff was too tall for the ceiling. So the tip was removed. Then Vinson discovered that Harriman's commission was missing. A messenger ran and got it, and Vinson finally swore in Harriman. He then went through the motions three more times...